Screen LibraryThe Best American essays 1986
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Ticknor & Fields,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 1986. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 290 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0899194672 0899194745 (pbk.) |
| Call Number: |
PS688 I712.65-54/B561/1986/ |
| Contents: | The follies of writer worship / Julian Barnes -- Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme -- Flight from Byzantium / Joseph Brodsky -- Heatherdown : a late imperialist memoir / Alexander Cockburn -- The passing of jazz's old guard : remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt / Gerald Early -- Of accidental judgments and casual slaughters / Kai Erikson -- When the cockroach stood by the mickle wood / Robert Fitzgerald -- China still lifes / William Gass -- Nasty little facts / Stephen Jay Gould -- Dressed to thrill / Anne Hollander -- Morality and foreign policy / George F. Kennan -- |